After attending Love Letter from the Afterlife at Red Rocks—a tribute to the late poet Andrea Gibson featuring their final performance alongside the Colorado Symphony—Buffy returns to one simple phrase from Andrea's work: try softer. In this episode, she explores what it means to meet life with less force and more presence. Through stories and reflection, Buffy considers how softening can become a daily practice for the body, heart, and spirit. What changes when you stop pushing against...

A murmuration is when a flock of thousands (or sometimes, hundreds of thousands) of birds move together across the sky like a wave, or a cloud of smoke. Buffy explores the surprising mechanics behind these breathtaking displays, where no single bird leads and yet the whole flock moves as one. She talks about the social and physical mechanics of this phenomenon, and what we can learn about connection and community from these birds. 🌱 Leave a tip in Venmo: @BuffyTTWH 🌱 Become a supporter...

In this episode, Buffy shares fresh observations and lessons from the workshop of her own life. She reflects on pleasure as a practice, the power of curating our attention, the value of invisible things, and the importance of shifting perspective, from chin-on-the-ground wonder at a ladybug to a wider view of the landscape. Tune in to explore the choices available to us in any moment, the art of waiting and listening, and how to cultivate a peaceful inner experience when the outer world is be...

Buffy begins this episode with a friend’s story about navigating a challenging work situation. Using the metaphor of an airplane, her friend described the inner shift that allowed her to rise above the turbulence rather than remain caught within it. “Cruising altitude” is the steady height an aircraft maintains for most of a journey, and this episode is a reflection on the places of steadiness inside of us, even when turbulence exists on either side. Tune in to access more equanimity in your ...

In the wake of Mother’s Day, Buffy reflects on mothers: what we are mothering, how we are mothered, and the creative shapes being a mother can take. She shares about experiencing her first Mother’s Day without her mom and weaves in stories of people in all stages and phases. This episode is a spacious offering for wherever you find yourself in relationship to mothering — whether you are grieving, nurturing, longing, creating, or becoming. Buffy closes out the episode closes with a grounding v...

Buffy and TTWH producer/editor Alex meet on the 6th birthday of Things That Will Help to reflect on six years of the podcast. They talk about the creative evolution of the podcast and their own practices, pleasure as a tool of the resistance, the age of AI, and why creativity is needed now more than ever. 🌱 Leave a tip in Venmo: @BuffyTTWH 🌱 Become a supporter of the podcast on Patreon! Patreon members support the production of the podcast and in return receive embodiment episodes, bon...

Labor doesn't have to deplete or harden us. In this episode, Buffy explores the space between arriving and striving, and invites us into the magic and beauty of the process as we aim towards a specific destination - into the magic of holy labor. Buffy invites listeners to notice where the weight of “getting there” has eclipsed the quiet of being here. Where can you loosen your hold? Where can you ease the heavy lifting? This episode is an offering for anyone in the middle of something—creativ...

When something taps Buffy on the shoulder more than once, she’s learned to listen. Lately, it’s been color. In this episode, she explores color beyond aesthetic. Color is something our bodies subtly register and respond to every day, and she reflects on the emotional and physical impacts of colors. She offers simple, grounded ways to invite more color into your life. 🌱 Leave a tip in Venmo: @BuffyTTWH 🌱 Become a supporter of the podcast on Patreon! Patreon members support the production of t...

After a difficult week, Buffy shares a story of moving a bench a few feet so it could catch the sunlight, and what this simple shift can mean in our own lives. In a time when you are likely carrying both collective grief and personal grief, how are you taking care of yourself? This episode is an invitation to remember that even small adjustments can let a little more sunlight in. 🌱 Find the accompanying playlist to this week's episode here. 🌱 Leave a tip in Venmo: @BuffyTTWH 🌱 Become a suppo...

In this episode, Buffy expands on the concept of mantra (a chant, a syllable, a steadying truth) into mantrika, which translates to “little mothers," or the worlds and phrases that we birth into existence daily. What are the words we repeat, consciously or unconsciously, that shape the architecture of our inner and outer worlds? If language creates reality, then each syllable is a seed. This episode is a call to choose your words with clarity, and in doing so, to build your world consciously....